Book Review - My Favourite Mistake by Marian Keyes - #HolidayReading Cyprus

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Title: My Favourite Mistake

Author: Marian Keyes

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Michael Joseph

Publication Date: 11th April 2024

Rating: 5 Stars

Anna has just lost her taste for the Big Apple…

She has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn’t want all that?

Anna, it turns out.

Trading a minor midlife crisis for a major life event, she switches the skyscrapers of Manhattan for the tiny Irish town of Maumtully (population 1,217), helping old friends Brigit and Colm set up a luxury coastal retreat.

Tougher than it sounds. Newflash: the locals hate the idea. So much so, there have been threats – and violence.

Anna, however, worked in the beauty industry. There’s no ugliness she hasn’t seen. No wrinkle she can’t smooth over.

There’s just one fly in the ointment – old flame Joey Armstrong.

He’s going to be her wingman.

Never mind their chequered history. Never mind what might have been.

Because no matter how far you go, your mistakes will still be waiting for you . . .

It's been quite a while since I last read a Marian Keyes novel, and possibly even longer since I last caught up with my favourite Irish family the Walshes. 

So I was utterly delighted to be able to delve back into the Walsh Family, and seeing just what Anna is up to now. 

Of course we get to see the latest in the lives of all of the sisters, which is a pleasure for all fans of the series. 

And once Anna is back in Ireland, well it all started to feel rather like coming home for this reader too. 

I loved Anna's new work situation, and getting to see flashbacks to all of her encounters with a certain Joe over the years, as well as her best friend Jacki was really great to see. 

This was a highly enjoyable instalment in the lives of the Walsh family, with them all being much older and wiser than before. It's a joy to see these characters mature but still keep all of their traditional character traits.

Put simply I love this book. 

Thank you to Penguin and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.